Actually that even used to be the address for our project until about a week ago. But the owner of the rights to the follow-up product protested, so that the project name was changed from "keyfinder" to "ekeyfinder" just recently.

supercoe wrote:Enchanted Keyfinder claims that it is a fork of Magic so at one time the code seemed to have existed.

A big thanks to the author/s of Enchanted Keyfinder for keeping tools like this open source.

... since the name was changed, it's not as well known. Therefore I'm trying to push Google and other search engines to it

Oliver, that Sourceforge decision is ridiculous. I really doubt anyone owns a relevant trademark on "keyfinder" and if they've abandoned their open source project (I'm getting a "whoops, we can't find that page") why not let your group keep it? They could add a disclaimer or something.

Anyway, to "optimize" for Googling purposes you might want to put some combination of "magical" "jellybean" and/or "keyfinder" in the subject of this thread...

B wrote:Oliver, that Sourceforge decision is ridiculous. I really doubt anyone owns a relevant trademark on "keyfinder" and if they've abandoned their open source project (I'm getting a "whoops, we can't find that page") why not let your group keep it? They could add a disclaimer or something.

The decision was made by the project admin.

As I understand it, the project named "keyfinder" was originally occupied by what is now the closed-source MJB. Then it was abandoned (obviously in an attempt to get rid of the public sources) and removed from SF.net. Later on someone created a project with that name which inherited some of the properties of the old one (repo, reviews ...).

Our project admin was annoyed by that already, so in addition to the - in my opinion invalid - DCMA notice, he actually wanted to get rid of this history. Renaming was just killing two birds with one stone ...

B wrote:Anyway, to "optimize" for Googling purposes you might want to put some combination of "magical" "jellybean" and/or "keyfinder" in the subject of this thread...

supercoe wrote:Great tool but what does this fork do that Magic did not?

Works for Office 2010, Load Hive is more reliable, documentation is actually existent, live updates of the software and not just a web link, and changing the Windows XP product key. Also keyfinder.cfg is built from the original community versions of MJB KF. Some entries were added to that and eventually the whole file will be reformatted to match a standard. There are even more plans for more features which will aide it with recovering software keys. There's more that it can do from the svn repository but that's what the unstable releases can do.

MJB KF became open source in MJB KF 2.0. It remained open source until last year (last open source version is 2.0.8 ). Recover Keys bought the project and closed it down (source code-wise). The current MJB KF is the "less feature rich" product compared to their flagship product Recover Keys.

They took out much of the keyfinder.cfg entries also to make it view fewer software keys which were built by community members of MJB KF.

Their current MJB KF still displays the GNU GPL license but when I started Enchanted Keyfinder I asked them for the source as per the GPL for possible bug updates and they replied they weren't giving it and that it was a closed source product. I didn't push the issue further.

That's the bulk of the info comparing the two products. EK isn't attempting to copy the original MJB KF, we're trying to evolve it into something more with our own set of features and goals in mind.

Thanks for the explanation, sag47, and congratulations on your project.

I'm sure you know there are places to report GPL violation (e.g. http://gpl-violations.org/ and http://www.softwarefreedom.org/ ) but since the new company owns the (original?) copyright I guess the only offense is claiming a GPL license without abiding by it. Well, that and the question of the user-contributed parts.... Too bad, all in all.